1. Understanding the challenges of EDM

1.1 What are the advantages of an EDM?

Electronic document management offers many advantages. It enables you to :

• make information immediately available to all users, wherever they work;

• minimize the circulation of paper documents to avoid data loss ;

• bring together all documents scattered throughout the organization in a single computerized file;

• avoid multiplication of documents to facilitate updating ;

• secure storage and access to documents and files ;

• promote the safeguarding of sensitive documents ;

• guarantee the uniqueness of...